Over the six months since October 7, Jews and Jewish institutions in America have been the target of consistent attacks — both rhetorical and physical — from the pro-Palestinian left. Major demonstrations have roiled deep-blue urban centers across the country, shutting down traffic in Manhattan, Washington, D.C., and Chicago. Protests have targeted popular tourist areas, key transit infrastructure, Israeli consulates and embassies, and Jewish organizations. College campuses, centers of progressive activism in normal times, went into overdrive after the Hamas attack. Jewish students were accosted by their peers, professors led celebrations of the October 7 atrocities as “justified resistance,” and pro-Palestinian rallies, with calls for “intifada revolution” and other intimidating rhetoric, have become commonplace. The presidents of Harvard, the University of Pennsylvania, and MIT testified to Congress over these antisemitic outbursts — famously embarrassing themselves, with two losing their jobs — as have Jewish students from various universities, but the campus climate of hostility to Jews persists.
These hotbeds of pro-Palestinian activism have been extensively covered by the conservative — and even, at times, the mainstream — media. What has gotten less coverage, however, is a far more disturbing trend: the activist Left taking its pro-Palestinian vitriol to the suburbs.
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